WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears likely to rule for police officers in Arkansas who were involved in a car chase that ended with the deaths of the driver and his passenger.

No one on the court in arguments Tuesday seemed inclined to affirm an appeals court ruling allowing a civil lawsuit by the driver's daughter to proceed against six West Memphis police officers. They fatally shot driver Donald Rickard and passenger Kelly Allen in a chaotic scene on a Memphis street after a chase that began across the Mississippi River in Arkansas.

The lawsuit says police used excessive force. But several justices said the officers should be shielded from liability.

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If you do the crime do the time or be responsible for it. He took a chance of killing others by running and if would not stop they had to shoot to stop. Now his kids or other people should be able to sue.

The strangest thing about this case is that because the chase ended in Memphis, these West Memphis officers had to defend themselves in a completely different set of Federal courts than they're used to -- Western District of TN (not Eastern District of AR) and 6th Circuit (not 8th Circuit). Seems they had to go before the Supreme Court to find a judge (or justice) who understood what they were doing...